The huge ball was Zhang Qiu, he opened his mouth, and said aggrievedly: "I'm not ......"

Shi Dazhu said with a smile: "He is not Dong Sanlin's person, the mark has been checked, Zhang Qiu has been from Shandong since five generations ago, but when he went to arrest Dong Sanlin just now, he shouted on the side, and the mark was tied up." ”

Lian Zining listened angrily and funny, and waved his hand: "Let him go, take him down!" ”

When Qiuqiu was taken down, Wuzi turned around and shouted at Lian Zining: "My lord, Brother Sanlin is a good person, don't kill him......"

Lian Zining asked his soldiers to bring Dong Sanlin's cronies down, he leaned back and leaned back on the back of the chair, Jiang Li Ye Nai quickly took a cushion from the side and cushioned it on the back of his neck.

"It's done, there are no outsiders now, let's talk to this official!" Lian Zining asked with interest: "The young master of Black Tiger Mountain, your father Dong Laohu has thousands of brothers under his hands, and he is considered an old horse thief leader, and the slave can count the locks." Why did you want to join the army? Is it to learn these things of Wu Yijun? ”

Dong Sanlin nodded, and said with a calm expression: "Yes, as the adults said, Black Tiger Mountain is the number of silks that the slaves can count now, but it is not the strongest. Marked with a background in the green forest, this background is already impossible to shake off, but even if you are a horse thief, you must be the best horse thief! marked the ambition since childhood, which is to make Black Tiger Mountain the first big lock of slaves and even the entire Guanwai! But if it goes on like this, it's impossible, the locks outside the gate are all familiar with each other, and the strength is about the same, whoever wants to eat it is a dream, so it can only be found another way. ”

"At this time, the mark heard the news that the adults were in the gate, no, so he brought people to defect."

Lian Zining stared at Dong Sanlin, and in the eyes of this young man, he saw a raging flame, which was something called ** and longing for power.

Lian Zining often sees such a flame rising in his eyes in the mirror.

"You, you really want to be an official?" Lian Zining asked lightly.

Dong Sanlin was stunned at first, and then nodded solemnly: "Who wants to be a bandit for the rest of their lives?" Be a horse thief? It is said that he is free and unrestrained, but he is living a life of licking blood with a knife, he can't enter the city in this life, he can't drink fine wine, he can't have beautiful women, and he is still worried every day for fear that the officers and soldiers will come to strangle, so how can he put his head on his neck and stabilize it when he puts his head on the waistband of his trousers? ”

He smiled: "Actually, under the mark, I envy the life of adults the most." ”

"You have a lot of ambitions." Lian Zining laughed and asked again: "Then these words, can you learn anything?" ”

Dong Sanlin said: "The formation arrangement, the arrangement of the troops, the coordination of infantry and cavalry, the firepower equipment, the training of the soldiers, the stabbing action during the battle, etc., are all watched one by one." ”

Lian Zining put away the smile on his face and asked again: "Then if you go back to the cottage, how will you improve?" ”

"No improvements!" Dong Sanlin said without hesitation: "This kind of formation is painstakingly studied by the adults and many staff, and it must be very reasonable. However, when it comes to fighting and training troops, the difference between the standard and the adults is 108,000 miles, and rashly changing it is self-defeating. However, if you can get a musket, the musketeer will keep it, and if you can't get it, you will go to the trouble and save the burden. ”

Lian Zining couldn't help but sigh, if Dong Sanlin returned to the cottage, he couldn't really use his own martial arts army model to create a strong army!

Even without muskets and cannons, they are not comparable to those horse thieves.

His pupils shrank, and he forced his eyes to look at Dong Sanlin and asked, "Having said this, aren't you afraid that this official will kill you?" ”

Dong Sanlin said with a smile: "I'm afraid, naturally I'm afraid, but if the adults want to kill the standard, they will kill if they don't say it." Adults don't want to kill the mark, and the mark says you won't kill either. ”

Lian Zining was stunned for a moment, then laughed, called Shi Dazhu in, and said, "Take a few of them down, so that they can be taken care of, but they must not be abused." ”

Shi Dazhu responded.

Seeing Dong Sanlin and the others come out of the big tent, the expression on Lian Zining's face became meaningful.

"Dong Sanlin, Dong Laohu! Black Tiger Mountain big locks! Interesting. ”

―――――― the dividing line -- traveled all the way, and after enjoying the great rivers and mountains outside the pass, we finally arrived at the great city of Zhubang in the Governor's District of Nuergan on the third day of the seventh month.

Zhubang City, which is the Jiamusi City of later generations, is located on the bank of the Songhua River, and is the capital of the Songhuajiang General under the command of the Nuergan Governor's District.

Here, we have to mention the division of political districts in the Nuergan region.

The Nuergan region is too vast, east to the sea, west to Tatar, north to the Outer Khingan Mountains, and south to Liaodong. During the period of Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle, Duoyan Sanwei and the three surnamed Jurchen were still honest and honest ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and their territories belonged to the jurisdiction of the Nuer Gandu Division, which was the peak period of the Nuer Gandu Division, and its area was equivalent to the sum of the area of Shandong, Shanxi, Beizhili, Shaanxi, Henan, Nanzhili, Huguang and Sichuan, and even larger.

Later, with the Duoyan Sanwei and the three surnamed Jurchen successively read out, the area of Nuer Gandu Division was also greatly reduced, and the current jurisdiction area is roughly east to the Whale Sea, which is now called Benhai, west to the current Daqing, north to the Songhua River, south to North Korea and Liaodong. Although it has shrunk in this way, it is equivalent to the size of three Shandongs, such a vast area, but it is also vast and sparsely populated, there are few Han people, and there are many ethnic minorities of all kinds, so it is natural to have a corresponding unique management system.

As in other places on the nine sides, the imperial court set up a slave to be the governor, plus the rank of the left deputy capital imperial envoy, and the commander slave to do all the military affairs, and also manage food and salary, etc., and generally civilian officials to fill the position.

Under the Governor of Nuergan, there are four major generals, namely the general of Songhuajiang who guards the area on the south bank of the Songhua River, the general of the Azoka River who guards the Asu River to a large area of the Whale Sea, and the general of Jianzhou who guards the north of the Yalu River, the hometown of the Jurchen Department of Jianzhou, which is close to North Korea, and the general of Liaobei who guards the area north of Liaodong and the border area of Duoyan Sanwei.

These four generals are all military attachés from the second rank, one level higher than the commander of the guard, and they are special positions of the imperial court, which are not available in other regions. Each general has more than 20 guards under his command, hundreds of thousands of troops, can be called authoritative, of course, according to the practice of the dynasty, they are only in charge of the army and not the people, under the jurisdiction of the major generals, there are two levels of prefectures and counties, the establishment of herdsmen and officials.

This pillar state city is the station of General Songhuajiang.

Of course, now General Songhuajiang has already been taken to Beijing by Jinyiwei and sent to prison to be disposed of, and the appointment of the new Songhuajiang General has not yet come down, and the entire region is in a state of leaderlessness.

Before the Jurchens entered the army, the key offensive area and the place of the battle were in the jurisdiction of the Songhuajiang general, and now more than seventy percent of the Songhuajiang general's jurisdiction has been occupied by the Jurchens, and there are only a few cities left, the big city of Zhubang, which is only a hundred miles away from the area controlled by the Jurchens.

The bitter cold outside the border, in later generations, it is almost to the border, let alone now, but the immigration of the imperial court is also fruitful.

After leaving the Liaodong Governor's Territory, the official road leading to the Nuergan Dusi is to wind all the way to the northeast along the Songhua River Valley, thousands of miles, across the entire Nuergan Governorate. On both sides of the Songhua River Valley, you can see the vertical and horizontal of Qianmo, and countless villages are distributed in the range of more than 50 miles on both sides of the Songhua River. In fact, this range is also the effective ruling area of the Ming Dynasty in the Nuergan Governorate District, and the city guards in the Nuergan area are basically distributed along the Qianli Songhua River.

On the periphery, there is an endless sea of forests, which is not deserted, but innumerable indigenous peoples living outside the Guan, who exist in the form of tribes, fishing and hunting for a living, primitive but strong. These people, in the mouths of the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty, were all called foreign barbarians, and on the surface they also obeyed the Ming Dynasty's teachings, but they sometimes surrendered and sometimes rebelled.

Because it happened to be the rainy season outside the Guanguan on the way to the march, there were many torrential rains on the way, and Wu Yi's army was basically foot soldiers, so it was a little later than the stipulated first day of the seventh month to arrive at the Zhubang city. If you really want to buckle your hat, you can be charged with delaying the military plane.

If you delay the military plane, you can ask for it on the spot!

Lian Zining was originally worried that the arrogant Grandpa of Wei Guo would take his own knife, but he had already thought of countless rhetoric in his heart, and he made up his mind that once things were wrong, he would immediately use his identity as Uncle Wu Yi to carry it, even if it made everyone faceless, it was better than giving his life in vain.

From the mouth of the prefect of the big city of Zhubang who came out to greet him, Lian Zining learned that as early as early yesterday morning, Wei Guogong led all the 240,000 troops except for Wu Yi's army to set off to the northeast.

When he said this, the eyes of the prefect of Zhubang Dacheng flashed with pity for this young magnate who had recently become famous, and now the situation was obvious, and the grandfather of Wei was going to leave Wu Yijun behind. offended the commander of the first army, this Uncle Wu Yi, thinking about it this time, it will be very bleak.

"My lord, what does Wei Guogong mean by this? This is to leave us behind! Shi Dazhu said indignantly on the side.

The rest of the people also showed a look of indignation.

Lian Zining just smiled.

He didn't know where he offended this Duke of Wei, but he didn't take it to heart, it didn't matter if it was later, or if he didn't fight.

Before, he changed the position of Uncle Wu Yi with his dedication to the jade seal of the country, and it was impossible to be promoted again in a short period of time, but this time he just followed the army to mix up his qualifications and merits, but he didn't take any military exploits very seriously.

Besides, even if you are not angry, what can you do? He is Wei Guogong, the commander of the first army, and his arms are twisted over his thighs?

appeased the rather indignant generals, Lian Zining ordered those people Ding Zhuang to transport all kinds of materials to the camp outside the city, although Wei Guogong did not do it very authentically, but his own work must be done well, and no one can catch the handle. Commanding the people to arrange all kinds of supplies, and then let Wu Yijun settle in the barracks, Lian Zining was invited by the prefect of Zhubang Dacheng to go to the banquet happily.

This move made these civil officials quite heartbroken, and they said that this young man Wu Yibo was ambitious, but he didn't expect that he was also a city government, and in this case, he could still be calm and relaxed.

Just when Lian Zining led the Wuyi army to the great city of Zhubang, the Northern Expedition army had already exchanged hands with the army of the Haixi Jurchen Yehenara Division.

On the third day of July in the 51st year of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty's northern expeditionary army forward, and Kemuwei south twenty miles and Yehenala Department of young magnate Amin two thousand light cavalry encountered, the government army avant-garde commander Wang Yancheng led three thousand elites to launch a fierce attack, Amin resisted, the two sides fought bloody battles to the end of the unitary time, Amin was finally defeated, the Jurchen cavalry broke and fled, Wang Yancheng took advantage of the victory to pursue, and killed more than 70 Jurchen Tartars. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the whole army followed, followed behind the ass of Amin's rout, and captured Kemuwei in one fell swoop when the gate of Kemuwei was opened.

Amin led 3,000 Jurchen soldiers in the city to flee through the north gate.

In this regard, the avant-garde of the government army started the first battle of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty, and the news spread, and the entire Northern Expeditionary Army was eager to try, and the army was extremely excited!

That night, Wei Guogong and Xu Pengju, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, held a banquet for the generals in Kemuwei.

On the fourth day of the seventh month, the army continued to go northeast along the Songhua River, and defeated the defense line composed of more than 3,000 Amin troops at Kemu Mountain, and in the early morning of the fifth day of July, approached to the south of the Kaolang Wuwei, the guard general of the Kaolang Wuwei, the head of the Yehnara tribe, and the resolute nephew of the Jurchen Zhengnan general, Yehnara - Erle Heze, led a 5,000-strong defender to flee, and was pursued by the elite cavalry of the Jinwu avant-garde, and killed more than 180 Jurchen Tartars. The Jinwu avant-garde vanguard went deep alone, was bitten by Erle and Ze, and carried out a counter-encirclement, and the Ming army broke through and killed more than 700 people.

That night, Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, reprimanded Jia Henian, the commander of Jinwu's avant-garde, Jia Henian was angry, and he was scolded by the rod Ten Army Sticks, and all the generals were shocked.

On the 9th of July, the Northern Expeditionary Army regained the Cilani Guard, and all the 1,400 defenders of the Ciloni Guard were killed in battle, and the Northern Expeditionary Army suffered 6,300 casualties.

On July 11, the Northern Expeditionary Army recovered the Wuzhi Qiye Musuo, killed 600 Jurchen Tartars, and lost 2,003 of its own.

On July 15, the Midyear Festival, more than 200,000 soldiers of the Ming Northern Expeditionary Army came to Xishen Acropolis.

This is already the last Jurchen city south of the Songhua River. If Xi Shenwei is lost, all the efforts of the Jurchens to invade the south a few months ago will be in vain!

Since the start of the war, the army of the Northern Expedition has been like a bamboo, with frequent good news, constantly recovering lost territory, and beating the Jurchen Tartars to the wolves, and fleeing all the way. Batches of messengers who flew to spread the good news continued to set out from the Northern Expeditionary Army, all the way to there, to the Nuergan Governorate, to the Liaodong Governorate, to the capital, and even to the whole world.

These news naturally reached the mouth of Lian Zining, who was still staying in the big city of Zhubang.

These words, Lian Zining just stayed in the big camp, supervised the training of the troops, rectified the military supplies, and went out to hunt when he was free, or had a feast and drink with the civil officials of the big city of Zhubang, with a lack of ambition.

But every move of the Northern Expeditionary Army, including every move of the Jurchen Tartars opposite, did not escape Lian Zining's eyes.

Lian Zining was very keenly aware that although the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty was overwhelming, and the good news was spread all the way, it did not cause much effective damage to the Jurchens, and these cities were either deliberately abandoned by the Jurchens, or they were left to defend by the dead. What the Ming Dynasty got was an empty city where the population was looted, the grain was looted, and the buildings in the city were basically burned down, an abandoned city! Moreover, the imperial army also paid a lot of money in order to capture these cities, and so far, 10,000 people have been killed in battle, and about 15,000 have lost their combat effectiveness.

And the Jurchens, there is almost nothing to lose.

And these are nothing, the most serious problem is that the speed of the Ming army's advance is too fast, and it has advanced for hundreds of miles while fighting for more than ten days, and it must have been sleepy and lacking, and the combat effectiveness is afraid that it will also decline greatly.

In the big camp outside the city of Zhubang, Lian Zining came out of the big tent, the night light was like water, he looked at the direction of the northeast, and stood silent.

Capital.

The Forbidden City, the Imperial Study, is brightly lit!

Xu Pengju is a person with such a surname, if he makes a meritorious contribution, how can he hold back? When he laid down a city, he wrote a letter and sent it to the capital as soon as possible.

The post road system of the Ming Dynasty is already quite perfect, and the current Northern Expeditionary Army is a major event that the entire Ming Dynasty and the opposition are most concerned about, so the post road system does not dare to slack off, and all the pieces are sent to the capital with the highest specifications of 800 miles. The so-called 800 miles of expedited refers to changing horses without changing people, running more than 800 miles a day and night, and the capital is only less than 3,000 miles away from the Songhua River, and the fast horses can be reached in three days.

Now, the table in front of Emperor Zhengde is already stacked with a thick stack of concertos.

"Xu Pengju did a beautiful job!" Zhengde slammed the music in his hand on the table and said with a hearty laugh.

As if this was not enough to express the excitement and joy in his heart, he couldn't sit still, so Suo got up from the dragon chair, his face full of joy, and paced back and forth in the imperial study.

How could he not be happy? He was a good martial artist when he was young, and after he ascended the throne, he often toured the Xuanfu and Datong border towns, and even once came to the front of the battle with Duoyan Sanwei, inspiring the soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy!

But since the 29th year of Zhengde after the fiasco under the city of Daning, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be in a slump militarily, although these years of armaments, but still by these evil neighbors around the bullying and despise, for Zhengde such a tough and self-esteem monarch, this is undoubtedly a great humiliation and suffering!

(To be continued)